MILWAUKEE—Growing more despondent as each turn brought them no closer to a conclusion, an exhausted group of friends was reportedly coming to the realization Friday that they had been playing the board game Wingspan incorrectly for the past six hours. “Wait, were we supposed to have set up these goal tiles earlier?” said Elliott Barnes, 31, grabbing […]

Though this is satire, we’ve all had that experience where we played a game (many times, even!) and only found out later that we got the rules massively wrong. Share your experience!

  • JackbyDev@programming.devEnglish
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    20 hours ago

    This happened to me during a game of The Thing. The owner of the game failed to remember that you are supposed to draw cards up to a specific amount each round. The game has a secret traitor. Each round you can either help or sabotage a mission. We kept being forced to sabotage at random times because it was all we had in our hand.